CÓMO ADQUIRIR UNA CULTURA CINEMATOGRÁFICA (NO ES FÁCIL…)

Estaba enseñando mi introducción a Drácula de Bram Stoker  e incluí en la presentación de PowerPoint sobre los orígenes y el desarrollo del mito del vampiro, una foto de la primera vampiresa (o ‘vamp’) de película, Theda Bara (nacida Theodosia Goodman). Se la ve reclinada sobre el esqueleto de, suponemos, su última conquista masculina (puedes […]

ACQUIRING AN ACADEMIC BIBLIOGRAPHIC CULTURE: SOME TIPS

My second-year students need to write a paper on Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, in which they must cite a minimum of three secondary sources. I give them a list of 23 topics from which they can choose, with the only restriction that only a maximum of 3 students can choose the same topic. In this […]

ON STUDENTS’ ABSENCE FROM THE CLASSROOM: BEGINNING TO WORRY

Whereas my MA students rarely skip classes and only do so for justified reasons, I cannot make sense of the attendance pattern in my BA class. There are 63 students officially registered, of whom 58 appear to be following the course according to the exercises handed in and our online activities. However, classroom attendance varies […]

SOBRE LA EXPERIENCIA DE DIRIGIR TESIS DOCTORALES (CON UNA DISCULPA)

He escrito hasta ahora dos entradas sobre el tema de la supervisión de estudiantes de doctorado (ver “A doctoral student abandons: At a loss what to advise…” de 2014, y “Supervising doctoral students: A complicated task” de 2015). En realidad, he publicado tres entradas más sobre los estudiantes de doctorado, pero estas dos están más […]

The Posthuman Patriarchal Villain as Absolute Future Threat: Winston Duarte (and the hero James Holden) in The Expanse novel series

SPOILERS WARNING: This post deals with the nine Expanse novels and discusses the series’ ending. The Expanse is a series of nine space opera novels—Leviathan Wakes (2011), Caliban’s War (2012), Abaddon’s Gate (2013), Cibola Burn (2014), Nemesis Games (2015), Babylon’s Ashes (2016), Persepolis Rising (2017), Tiamat’s Wrath (2019) and Leviathan Falls (2021)—accompanied by a short […]

El villano patriarcal posthumano como amenaza futura absoluta: Winston Duarte (y el héroe James Holden) en la serie de novelas The Expanse

AVISO DE SPOILERS: esta entrada analiza las nueve novelas de la serie Expanse, incluyendo el final. The Expanse es una serie de nueve novelas del sub-género ópera espacial ya traducidas: Leviathan Wakes [El despertar del Leviatán] (2011), Caliban’s War [La guerra de Calibán] (2012), Abaddon’s Gate [La puerta de Abadón] (2013), Cibola Burn [La quema […]